Returning to the alleyway the Doctor demands that the vendors tell him where the duo has taken his friend, and they explain that they will have gone to the motorway. A voice grants them entry and they smile. The young couple check Martha is OK before reporting into an onboard computer that they have three passengers, and would like access to the Fast Lane. They strap themselves in and soon the car rises into the air zooming off, leaving the Doctor alone on a nearby balcony. She slumps down and they bundle her into the black, block-like shuttle.
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The young couple arrive at a vehicle some distance away and to calm Martha down they apply a “sleep” patch to her neck. The Doctor struggles to open it again but soon he is on their tails.
They make their way to a doorway and slam it shut. Holding a gun to her head and apologising profusely they back off, the Doctor demanding that they let his friend go. Suddenly, through the fog of the alley two people a young man and a young woman lunge forward and grab her. She attaches the patch to her neck and saunters off, leaving Martha to look on in disgust.
He fails to understand her problem but she insists that nobody returns from the motorway, everyone goes there in the end. She hands over the money but before she can apply the patch the Doctor cuts in. She explains that her parents have gone onto the motorway and she wants to buy a “forget” patch. Martha is unimpressed by the similarities to drug dealing and she looks on as a young woman approaches one of the vendors. They open up shop and all talk at once, trying to sell them “happy” and “anger” amongst other emotions. Soon the rain stops and as they move into another alleyway three proprietors concealed in tiny outlets built into the walls detect their arrival. He admits that it was and her reaction is not a happy one. Martha comments that he has brought her to the slums before asking if this was a place he brought Rose. He tells the nurse attending him to find them before it is too late, and Novice Hame gets to her feet in obedience, arming a gun.īack outside Martha fails to see what is so new about the planet but after the Doctor finds an information screen and activates it with the Sonic Screwdriver, he shows her a view of the city, a collection of shining buildings ringed with flying cars surrounded by vast stretches of water, the place he stayed on his last visit. They move through a dark alleyway searching for cover as elsewhere in the city the Face of Boe has sensed their arrival.
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They step outside and as the Doctor removes the arrow lodged in the ship door from their previous trip, Martha is less than impressed by the torrent of rain that awaits them. He tells his young friend there would be no fun for him in returning home and instead opts to take her to New Earth in the year 5 billion and 53, to the city of New New York. Martha continues to ask what it is like and eventually he tells her of the burnt orange skies above the glass-domed Citadel, beside the red mountains capped with snow beneath the twin suns. He decides to take her to a different planet but disregards the idea of visiting his home-world. Inside the TARDIS the Doctor decides to extend his initial invitation to Martha of only taking her on a single trip deciding to take her once into the past and once into the future before finally taking her home. The couple scream but no one is listening, and soon the only voice to be heard is Sally Calypso signing off. Showers of sparks rain from the ceiling as something breaks inside. His wife scolds him for telling the authorities they had three passengers but it is no use. The husband calls for the police using a radio but is put on hold as the cabin continues to rock violently. The old couple listening look on in terror as something outside rocks the vehicle too and fro. On a grainy television screen mounted into a space-age car, Sally Calypso gives the latest traffic report. Davies and Dave Houghton is available on the official Doctor Who website. Original Broadcast (UK) Gridlock April 14th, 2007 7h40pm - 8h25pmĪ commentary track by David Tennant, Russell T. It's not long before Martha finds herself in danger, and the Doctor is set to renew an old acquaintance. This time he's got new companion Martha in tow, and there's a new threat too - a sinister group known as the Pharmacists are in control. The Doctor makes a return trip to New Earth, where he and Rose once encountered menacing feline nurses, and patients used as medical guinea pigs.
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